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BID TO LID HIGH-RISE HEIGHTS DEVELOPMENT Upper East Side community board seeks to preserve affordable housing, five-story walk-ups — and a low-rise lifestyle — by capping the height of new buildings on York, First, Second and Third Avenues at 210 feet Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray host Gracie Mansion Halloween dressed at Clark Kent and Wonder Woman on Friday, October 27. Photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
Over the past decade, a forest of slender, cloud-piercing towers has been shoehorned into modestsized lots along West 57th Street and lower Fifth Avenue. Skyscrapers on broader footprints have shot up from the Hudson Yards to the World Trade Center. While not on the same scale, even the Upper West Side — long resistant to bulky, boxy, outsized glasssheathed structures — has been getting its fair share since 2007, when the 37-story Ariel East and 31-story Ariel West first dwarfed its neighbors in the Broadway corridor. For years, the Upper East Side, with plenty of exceptions, was a low-rise redoubt. Not anymore. The dawn of the Second Avenue subway, and a long-anticipated, if embryonic, eastward flow of residents, has fueled a construction boom that is literally raising the roof on the neighborhood. And it has already provoked a significant backlash: Community Board 8, which represents the old Silk Stocking District, and City Council Member Ben Kallos, who has campaigned to “Stop SuperScrapers,” are backing a proposal
DE BLASIO AND THE VANISHING VOTER ELECTIONS As a lackluster mayoral campaign sputters to an end — with scant enthusiasm for de Blasio, Malliotakis or Dietl — fears abound that the city’s incredible shrinking electoral turnout could hit new lows on November 7 BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
Citizen 360, on First Avenue and East 89th Street, towers above its traditional red-brick neighbors. The mostly low-rise precinct is filling up with cloudpiercing towers, leading community and political leaders to seek height limits on future buildings. Photo: Douglas Feiden to rein in the loftier heights sought by dozens of developers. “No one wants to live in the shadow of a billionaire,” Kallos said in an interview. “When you have
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Once upon a time, most New Yorkers loved to vote. Exercising the franchise was a sacred rite of passage for immigrants and new arrivals. It was a civic, moral and even social obligation for citizens of long-standing, too. Not anymore. Sadly, en masse voting is a relic of the past. And the evidence can be found in the campaigns of Bill de Blasio. Naturally, the diminution of the ballot box long pre-dates the incumbent mayor. But it hit record lows on his watch. In the 2013 mayoral race, barely one million of the city’s 4.2 million
registered voters showed up as the then-public advocate battled the thenformer MTA boss Joe Lhota. In his triumph, de Blasio achieved a dubious honor: a 24 percent turnout, the most abysmal in city history. Flash forward four years. On September 12, the mayor clobbered Sal Albanese by a 74 percent-to-16 percent margin in the Democratic mayoral primary, hailing a “resounding victory,” which indeed it was. What he didn’t say: Only 14 percent of Democrats trekked to the polls.
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ON THE SHOULDERS OF HISTORY SUFFRAGE On the centenary of women’s suffrage in New York State, a mission to inspire girls and young women BY MERIDITH MASKARA
On November 7, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to cast their votes in the New York City general election. All indicators show that turnout will be especially low, perhaps even below that of 2013, when just 29 percent of Manhattan voters cast ballots. This is a shame, especially since gaining the right to vote was a hardfought battle for so many, including for us women. Monday, November 6, is the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State. I believe it’s the duty of every woman to exercise our right to vote — and teach our girls to do the same.
Participation is so important because every day, we see the ďŹ ght for women’s equality is far from over. Look no further than the incoming City Council, where at best 12 seats, less than 25 percent, will be held by women. (In Manhattan, four of 10 current council members are women.) Or to Congress, where women representatives were recently excluded from the conversation on changes to the health care law. To continue pushing towards equality and ensure women’s issues are top of mind at City Hall, in Albany and in the halls of Congress, we must engage. Each time a woman chooses not to use her vote, we lose momentum. Let us think of the examples we want for our daughters. We need to teach girls to be civically engaged at a young age, so that when they grow up, they know how to use their voice – and their vote — to further the rights and position of all women. That’s why the Girl Scouts just launched the G.I.R.L. Agenda — a nonpartisan initiative to inspire, prepare and mobilize girls and those who care
Women parade for the vote in New York City on May 6, 1912. November 6 is the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State. Photo: American Press Association, via Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress about them to lead positive change through civic action. Building on our legacy of civic engagement, our programming now includes a civic action badge for girls as young as five. Girl Scouts across New York City, including the 4,300 served in Manhattan, will now have even more opportunities to get engaged and advocate for issues important to them. But this is just the beginning of what we can accomplish together: As a city,
we need to join forces to equip all girls with the tools to use their voices and make a difference in their lives and communities. We need to empower girls to take action — through service projects, testifying at City Hall, or writing letters to their elected ofďŹ cials. We need to teach this to girls in schools, through after-school programs, in shelters, detention centers and housing developments. Today, we choose to remember the
courageous women who fought for our rights, and we use this anniversary to remind women and girls everywhere that our voices are the strongest weapons we have as we ďŹ ght for our future. Here’s to the next 100 years! Meridith Maskara is the CEO of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York and the mother of ďŹ ve girls.
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CRIME WATCH BY JERRY DANZIG ARREST IN SENIOR ASSAULT Police collared one of two men who set upon a senior citizen on West 105th Street early on Monday, October 16. Police said a 76-year-old man walking toward Amsterdam Avenue from Broadway at a bout 5:15 a.m. when two men came up from behind him and punched him in the face outside 225 West 105th. The man fell to the ground, and his attackers took his wallet. Police searched the area but couldn’t locate the muggers. The victim told police that he had been intoxicated at the time of the incident; he also said that the perpetrators looked familiar and possibly lived in the family shelter at 2720 Broadway. He refused medical attention. He told police his wallet held $20 and some documents. One of the two alleged perpetrators, Davis Morales, 43, a resident of the 24th precinct, was arrested the next day on charges of robbery, felony assault, grand larceny and several other counts, according to police.
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was working in the apartment at 11 a.m. on Monday, October 16, when the woman, later identiďŹ ed as 21-year-old Dahmiqua J. Ladson, approached him, placed a hammer/screwdriver combo to the man’s neck, threatened to kill him and demanded money. Ladson was arrested later that day on charges of robbery, grand larceny, assault, criminal mischief and other counts, according to police.
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SANDY, 5 YEARS LATER PLANNING Efforts to mitigate the impact of future storms include improvements to transit, infrastructure and electrical grid BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
Five years later, Superstorm Sandy’s impact on New York City is still being felt. Ongoing efforts to recover from the storm, which caused 43 deaths citywide, including two in Manhattan, and an estimated $19 billion in damage, have encompassed virtually all aspects of the city’s crucial infrastructure, including hospitals, power supply, drinking water, roads and mass transit. “There is absolutely no question that the city is safer and more resilient since Sandy,” Jainey Bavishi, director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency, said at a Community Board 1 meeting last night on the response to the storm. During Sandy, hundreds of openings to the subway system in Lower Manhattan, ranging from stairway entrances to manholes to vent bays, became entry points for floodwaters. “Since then, MTA has undertaken a massive investment program, funded primarily by the Federal Transit Administration, to repair and rebuild the damaged facilities and install resiliency measures on all of our vulnerable opening locations in the subway system,” said Branko Kleva, program executive for Sandy Recovery and Resiliency with New York City Transit. The South Ferry subway station, which was completely flooded and reopened in June of this year following years of repair work, now has sealable vent bays and marine doors on each of its entrances that can be closed during storms, as well as pumping capacity to remove water that might leak through the new flood defenses. Hundreds of thousands of Lower Manhattan residents lost power during Sandy, in some cases for days. The primary cause of downtown electricity outages was flooding at Con Edison’s East 13th Street substation, off the FDR Drive near the East River, where storm surge flowed above temporary barriers and damaged critical mechanical infrastruc-
Recovery and resiliency efforts undertaken since Superstorm Sandy include steps to prevent tunnels like the Battery Park Underpass, pictured here during Sandy, from flooding during future storms. Photo: Timothy Krause via Flickr ture. Since the storm, Con Edison has invested $1 billion to protect its systems from future storms, including $18 million in Lower Manhattan, said Darren Scarimbolo, a department danager at the energy company. The East 13th Street substation was fortified with new walls and flood barriers, and existing infrastructure was raised above the floodplain to protect it in the event that flooding does occur. . The city’s Sandy recovery efforts are tied closely to its plans to mitigate the impact of climate change. Under guidelines announced earlier this year, all new city construction and improvements to buildings and infrastructure must account for anticipated changes in temperature, precipitation, and sea levels. By 2025, all city buildings will be retrofitted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of taking 715,000 cars off the road, officials have said. Sea-level rise is a key concern in the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Project, which aims to strengthen the downtown waterfront to
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BEAUTY STREET AND FUTURE AVENUE EAST SIDE OBSERVER BY ARLENE KAYATT
Never got to say goodbye — Midafternoon call from friend Elaine did not bode well. Had to be uber important. Back and forth morning calls are the usual. But this was something else. News. Stop everything. Our favorite don’t-tell meet-up spot, Uno Grille, was gone. The East 86th Street location closed, shuttered, no more. The almost-all day happy hour, the big TV where only Elaine could get Chris the bartender to change the channel from forever sports to CNN despite
the overflowing sports watchers. Where you could order bar-priced appetizers at happy hour and have them brought over to the table where you were having dinner. The sign on the window saying goodbye sends the locals across town to the West Side Uno Grille on 81st and Columbus. Sorry. Not. Upper East Siders go to the West Side for Fairway Cafe and Zabars. Not Uno. Uno on 86th belonged to the East Side. And they’re not going west! Methinks the departure of Uno 86th is a sign of what’s happening on the south side of 86th between Second and Third Avenues. Looks like all the commercial space east of the Bromley residential high-rise on the corner of 86th and Third — City Cinemas, Burg-
er King, some storefronts, and maybe Fairway — are going to be razed along with the medical office building at 210 East 86th, and the homeless shelter between Burger King and another empty storefront. That assemblage would give way for a mixed-use commercial-residential high-rise complex similar to the one in progress on the northeast corner of 86th and Third and at the site of the old Gristede’s east of Second Ave. Looks like another bad hair day for the UES. With the new beauty corridor west of Third Ave — think ULTA, Sephora, L’Occitane and other big boxish stores in and coming to 86th Street — the UES is securely ensconced in Century 21 — er, make that the 21st century.
Going retro — Just when it seemed that it was all about grab and go, eat and run, no server in the world of fast casual food comes a sign that maybe, just maybe, it doesn’t always work. Several months ago, this column noted the people-less opening of a Horn & Hardart-style automated Eatsa on the southwest corner of 43rd and Third where you “pays your money and you gets your bowl” without seeing or being seen by a server or cashier. Can’t say I’m a fan of the concept or sorry to see it go. There’s something New York about being able to go into a restaurant, order and get what you want, and not have to say anything to anyone if you don’t want to. I mean how can you ignore nobody? Take that all away and you could be anywhere. Just not in New York. That being said, Eatsa locations in other states are also closing. An-
other sign perhaps that New York’s onto something? Michael No Moore — Michael Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender” had its last breath late last month at the Belasco Theater. Moore’s two-hour one-man standup was an advocacy for standing up against our president with notables in attendance, either in the audience or on stage, as U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and the UES’s Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright along with other women in Moore’s life who he said have always stood strong for him, including two nuns from his Catholic elementary school in Flint, Michigan, and the New Jersey librarian who helped jump start his career way back in the ‘80s when she wouldn’t allow the banning of a book Moore had written. Here’s to more Moore.
MAKING MEMORIES GRAYING NEW YORK BY MARCIA EPSTEIN
On a Saturday earlier this month, John and I went to the West 104th Street Block Association Street Fair between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue. BAiP (Bloomingdale Aging in Place), our neighborhood all-volunteer senior community organization — what some might call our NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community) — had a table there, as they do every year. It’s fun to meet and greet other BAiP members as they come and go, scanning the stalls, buying books and other items, and just having a pleasant Saturday outing on the Upper West Side. From there, we went to the HI New York City Hostel at Amsterdam Avenue and 104th Street, where local BAiP artists were showing some of their work in a clothesline show. BAiP has, among many other activities, a group for new and experienced artists. Their work was impressive, and once again we ran into BAiP friends and neighbors and had a chance to mingle and munch on crackers and cheese.
That same day the hostel was having one of its open houses and some BAiP members joined in to learn about the historic building. The sign engraved outside calls it a Home for Respectable Aged Indigent Females. Today it is part of Hostelling International and well known for its pleasant environment, large garden and front terrace. The Victorian Gothic structure, designed by one of the 19th century’s preeminent architects, Richard Morris Hunt, was built from 1881 through 1883 and operated as a residence for, as it says, aged and respectable aged indigent females. It was shut down in 1974 for many building violations, but in its interior was revamped in 1990 and it became a youth hostel. The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1983 and is the largest hostel in North America. Try to get the next tour date; the history of this amazing building is fascinating. To round out the weekend, we took a drive with some friends to my hometown, Croton-on-Hudson, hoping to visit the Van Cortlandt Manor, which unfortunately was closed for a private event. From there we drove to “my” house on Morningside Drive. It was my house from 1947 until I went to college, and remained my parents’ house until
“Sycamores, Riverside Park,” center, by Ruth Kozodoy, a Bloomingdale Aging in Place member, was among the works at a clothesline art show at the HI New York City Hostel last weekend. Photo: Caitlin Hawke I was in my 30s. But someone had the gall to paint it yellow. I’m just kidding, I guess. I am an old lady with my memories of a gray house with white trim. And why did it look smaller? And why did tears come to my eyes?
Of course I had to go and look at the high school, which has a new addition and some very young people hanging around outside. Then on to lunch at the Croton Diner and a peek at the upper village, which was all we had in
the way of shopping way back then. Nostalgia is fine, but I was glad to get back to the UWS, where I live my real life. And in my mind, that house will be gray with white trim for as long as I live. So there!
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EDITOR’S PICK FESTIVAL ALBERTINE Albertine, 972 Fifth Ave. Nov. 1-5 Free 212-650-0070 frenchculture.org/events New York is home to Comic Con, Santa Con and a host of other splashy, sprawling conferences. Festival Albertine is not one of them, and yet for the caliber and sheer quantity of esteemed women artists and intellectuals it attracts, it could easily be the city’s Francohone-Feminist Con. Curated by pioneering feminist writers and activists Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan, the fourth annual Festival Albertine will celebrate the vital exchange of ideas between leading francophone and U.S.-based thinkers and artists. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, Christiane Taubira and Steinem kick off the festival with what’s sure to be a lively conversation about how the fight for more diverse and inclusive political representation can have a very real impact on our daily lives. Other highlights include a panel on Nov. 3 with Roxane Gay, Mona Chollet and Camille Morineau, who will explore the struggle to reclaim the integrity of the female body, a session on the politics of language, and a look at how activism and the arts can be vehicles for social change. Seating is limited; all events will be streamed live.
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Sunday Worship, led by Dr. Michael Brown, is the heart of the Marble Church community. It is where we all gather to sing, pray, and be changed by an encounter with God. Marble is known throughout the world for the practical, powerful, life-changing messages and where one can hear world class music from our choirs that make every heart sing.
59E59 Theater 59 East 59th St. 3:30, $25 In this original play by David Harrower, the fates of a young woman, her plowman husband and the local miller collide in a quest for knowledge, agency and freedom. 59E59, a nonprofit theater committed to bringing innovative, neverbefore-seen work to New Yorkers, showcases its latest. 212-753-5959 59e59.org
Mon 6 ‘THE AMBULANCE DRIVERS’ WITH JAMES MORRIS New York Society Library 53 East 79th St. 6:30 p.m. $15, advance registration required Everyone loves a good backstory, and “The Ambulance Drivers,” James McGrath Morris’ biography of Hemingway and Dos Passos, provides one: After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense 20-year friendship and write some of America’s greatest novels, from Paris cafes to the Austrian Alps. 212-288-6900 nysoclib.org
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WeWo: Wednesday Worship at 6:15pm Photo by Jeff Medaugh, via Wikimedia Commons
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‘RUNNING’ WITH RASHAAD NEWSOME
‘THE BALLET COOK BOOK’ ▲
Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Ave. 7 p.m. $45 Newsome’s immersive performance “Running” riffs off the musicology term “vocal run,” a rapid series of ascending or descending musical notes sung in quick succession. Newsome, a multidisciplinary artist whose work has critiqued the appropriation of Harlem’s 1970s queer ballroom scene, is sure to impress. 212-616-3930 armoryonpark.org
The Guggenheim 1071 Fifth Ave. 7:30, $40 In 1967, ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq published a compendium of ballet history, food stories and recipes from over 90 leading dancers and choreographers, including George Balanchine and Jacques d’Amboise. Now, 50 years later, the New York City Ballet will perform excerpts from roles originated by Ballet Cook Book contributors. 212-423-3500 guggenheim.org
Marble's weekly Wednesday Worship, lovingly nicknamed WeWo, is a service that blends traditional and contemporary worship styles, taking the best of both, creating a mixture that is informal and reverent, often humorous and always Spirit-filled.
Upcoming Events
Our Labyrinth Walks Labyrinth walks at Marble Collegiate Church are open to all: • First Sunday of each month: 1:00-3:00pm • Wednesdays before WeWo: 5:00-6:00pm (Please call the church to confirm schedule) Our Labyrinth Facilitators will be available to help guide you and answer any questions you may have, while allowing you the space to walk in your own way, at your own pace.
Marianne Williamson in Partnership with Marble Collegiate Church Tuesdays 7:30pm - 9:00pm New York Times bestselling author, Marianne Williamson brings her weekly lecture series to Marble Church. The cost to attend is $20, however, no one is turned away for lack of funds. The evening is also available via Livestream by donation. Event listings brought to you by Marble Collegiate Church. 1 West 29th Street / New York, New York 10001 212 686 2770 / MarbleChurch.org Download the Marble Church App on iPhone or Android
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ALONG THE LINES OF GREATNESS Master drawings by da Vinci, Van Gogh, Dürer and others at The Met BY MARY GREGORY
Leonardo da Vinci’s little drawing of a bear feels much bigger than it should. At only 4 x 5 inches, you have to step close to see its delicate silverpoint lines. But, once da Vinci’s got your attention, he holds it. It’s just a sketch, really, a few quick lines made by the point of a stylus dragged across a lightly buffed paper. But that’s where its magic lies. Those dashed off lines record thoughts, in this case coming from one of history’s great minds and
IF YOU GO WHAT: “Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection” WHERE: The Met Fifth Avenue WHEN: Through Jan. 7 www.metmuseum.org/ placed directly before our eyes. We see the pentimenti, the visible traces of earlier lines. They’re passages where the master rethought. Should the
In the charming “Study of a Ballet Dancer” (recto) and “Two Studies of Dancers” (verso) Edgar Degas utilized watercolor on prepared pink paper. Photo: Adel Gorgy
Rembrandt’s masterful strokes reveal the artist’s thoughts and second thoughts in “The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci,” 1634-35. Photo: Adel Gorgy nose be this long, or a little shorter? How far apart should the back legs be? Once da Vinci had completed a bear, he drew an extra paw, just to focus on how it’s formed. As we stand almost nose to glass to see the work, on display in the Met Fifth Avenue’s Lehman Wing, we see an even fainter image. Between the head and paw of the bear is a barely visible sideways drawing of a woman’s or a girl’s head and the outline of her shoulders. Glance briefly, or from too far away, and you’ll miss her entirely. Discoveries like these are part of the delight of looking at drawings. They offer an immediacy and intimacy that completed paintings or sculptures often can’t. They’re not just works of art, though those on display in “Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection” are spectacular creations. They’re also insights into the thinking and working methods of artists. In this exhibition of some 60 master European drawings, organized by curator Dita Amory with associate curator Alison Nogueira, they even allow insights into the mind of the collector. Robert Lehman began purchasing drawings in the 1920s, building on his father’s collection of paintings. Rather than sticking to one school or century, Lehman bought what he liked. Over the years, his tastes changed. After accumulating Renaissance works on paper under the guidance of legendary dealers like Bernard Berenson
and Joseph Duveen, he became interested in Modernism and bought directly from the studios of radical French artists. As a result, the collection spans Italian, Spanish, Northern European and French artists from the 14th to the 20th centuries and encompasses much of the progression of Western art. From Fra Bartolomeo’s 1501 landscape and Luca Signorelli’s c. 1490 “Head of a Man in Profile,” (which illustrates the scientific study of perspective but also the composure of a man deep in thought) to Henri Matisse’s 1945 blocky, simplified odalisque study, “Reflection in the Mirror,” each piece adds to the bigger picture. Leonardo comes back into the spotlight in Rembrandt’s drawing “The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci,” the exquisite draftsmanship of which can only be experienced firsthand. Rembrandt, who never traveled to Italy, had only seen the da Vinci masterpiece in other artists’ reproductions. Ever inventive, he took it upon himself to re-imagine it. It’s a work of striking contrasts. On close viewing, the dark and light, quickness and surety of Rembrandt’s strokes are palpable. He dashes off faces of the apostles, like the figure at the far left with just five or six lines, yet we see the profile and the intense expression of a bald, bearded, muscular man. At the center is Jesus. At first, Rembrandt sketched him young and gentle with flowing curly hair. Then, he went back and drew over the original, chang-
ing to an older, more contemplative, downward-looking countenance. In the canopy backing the scene, the wood grain from Rembrandt’s table causes breaks in the lines, a glimpse of the artist’s studio. And at the bottom right is a small dog, a favorite Rembrandt addition. Dürer’s extraordinary self-portrait in pen brings across a curious artist, emphasizing his hand and eyes, the tools of his trade. The few curly hairs on his chin touchingly testify to his youth. On the back, six drawings of a rumpled pillow may have been studies for the complex draped fabrics so in vogue in Netherlandish painting. It’s joined by two other Dürer works on paper. Corot’s 1825 view of “The Palatine Hill, Rome” and the 1852 “Madame Félix Gallois” by Ingres are breathtakingly detailed. A beautiful early Van Gogh drawing, “Road in Etten” from 1881 hints at his later style. A pointillist drawing by Paul Signac shows his dedication to both his craft and vision in the ten thousand (or more) individual dots of varying tone that went into its making. Painting and color dazzle, seducing the eye. Black and white reveal. Pared down to basics, just lines — precise, impossibly controlled, and gloriously personal — they’re the handwriting of artists. “Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection” gives us a chance to peek into the diaries of some of the greatest.
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SENIORS ON THE RUNWAY STYLE The Carter Burden Network hosts a fall fashion show on the UES UES seniors participated in a fall fashion show hosted last Thursday by The Carter Burden Network, one of New York’s oldest senior-service organizations. Nearly 25 seniors strutted their stuff in sequins, pearls and formal wear with makeup and hair styling by volunteers from Macy’s. William Dionne, Executive Director of the Carter Burden Network, emceed the event, which took place at The Carter Burden Luncheon Club & Senior Program on 351 East 74th Street on the Upper East Side. The Luncheon Club provides socialization, recreation, education, congregate luncheon meals, activities, day trips, computer training and holiday parties, and delivers daily meals to home bound individuals.
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Though slightly more than 20 percent of active New York City voters are unaffiliated with either major party, those disenchanted with the twoparty system currently have no foothold in the 51-member City Council, which is currently composed of 47 Democrats and three Republicans, with one seat vacant. But despite (or, perhaps, because of) the Democratic dominance of the local legislature, this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slate of City Council elections features a crop of independent and third-party candidates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; seeking office on assorted party lines and platforms, and with varied reasons for running outside the major party establishment â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hoping to break the two-party mold. Despite the Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current makeup, successful third-party Council bids are not unheard of. In 2003, to cite one notable recent example, Letitia James, now the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public advocate and a Democrat, successfully ran for City Council on the Working Families line, defeating a Democratic rival in the general election.
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Rachel Honig is among a few independent candidates seeking to upend the two-party system and win a City Council seat in the November 7 general election. would lose the opportunity for any exposure and momentum,â&#x20AC;? she said. One focus of Honigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign has been attracting voters dissatisfied with Mayor Bill de Blasio, who she says has been â&#x20AC;&#x153;largely invisibleâ&#x20AC;? in the district. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real demand for a Democrat whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not beholden to the mayor, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a more independent thinker,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would tell the voters of District 4 that the most important vote is going to be for their City Council person,â&#x20AC;? Honig added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because the mayor is likely going to win, and the Council is designed to be a check on the mayor.â&#x20AC;? Powers and Honig will face Republican Rebecca Harary in the general election for the seat held by Dan Garodnick, who is prevented by term limits from seeking reelection. Though both Garodnick and his predecessor, Eva Moskowitz, are Democrats, the district elected a Republican Council member as recently as the 1990s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is an inappropriate presumption in New York that a Democratic nominee is as good as in,â&#x20AC;? Honig said.
FACING â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; District 6 candidate Bill
Raudenbush initially planned to mount a primary challenge Democratic incumbent Helen Rosenthal for her Upper West Side Council seat, and even began collecting signatures from registered Democrats, but ultimately decided to run as an unaffiliated independent in the general election. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was just about done with the conduct of the de Blasio administration and the Democrats in City Hall,â&#x20AC;? Raudenbush said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The real appeal about to running as an independent, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always thought, is that you get to be a clear, moral voice,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get to go to City Hall and say either I agree or disagree on a given issue. Your arm canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be twisted as much, but it also puts you in a position of responsibility.â&#x20AC;? Though Raudenbush considers himself a Democrat, he said that the party is â&#x20AC;&#x153;just not that relevantâ&#x20AC;? in local politics, especially in a body as dominated by one party as the 51-member Council. On the campaign trail, Raudenbush has found that most voters arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t particularly concerned with party affiliation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Only one out of every 20 or so voters asks what party I
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD, 6:30PM Asia Society | 725 Park Ave. | 212-288-6400 | asiasociety.org Go behind the scenes of the Broadway revival of M. Butterfly, still timely 30 years after its debut, with playwright David Henry Hwang and director Julie Taymor ($25).
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A SINGLE VOTE FOR A SECOND CHANCE Not all third-party bids are premeditated. District 1 candidate Christopher Marte, who lost narrowly to incumbent Margaret Chin in the Democratic primary, was able to continue his campaign in the general election due to good fortune and the idiosyncrasies of New York election law. Marte, a first time office-seeker and Lower East Side native, ran for the Democratic nomination on a message of blocking overdevelopment and preserving affordability in the downtown district, but fell roughly 200 votes short of Chin, who is seeking her third term. Initial results were close enough to require a hand count of absentee and affidavit ballots at the Board of Elections. The hand count confirmed that Marte had lost the Democratic nomination, but also revealed that he had earned a second chance to challenge Chin in November as the nominee of the Independence Party.
The Independence Party of New York boasts the largest membership of any third party in the state — due in part, critics have said, to significant number of voters mistakenly registering for the Independence Party while actually intending to be recognized as unaffiliated independents. The party didn’t field a candidate for the District 1 council seat this year, leaving the nomination open for registered members to write in their choices on the ballot on Primary Day. Marte emerged as the Independence Party’s choice — with five votes to Chin’s four. Though Marte said he remains “and will always be” a Democrat, he welcomed the unexpected nomination as “a miracle of an opportunity” to build upon his primary results. “It was a total fluke,” Marte told Straus News at an October press conference announcing his continued candidacy. “We didn’t know the party line was even open, and I believe many of those people who went to go vote thought they were Democrats, but then realized that they weren’t and just wrote my name in.” Aaron Foldenauer, an attorney who finished third to Chin and Marte in the Democratic primary, is also continuing his campaign in the general election as a third-party candidate. Foldenauer will appear on the ballot on the Liberal Party line.
SHAKING UP CONVENTION Conventional wisdom holds that District 3 Council Member Corey Johnson will cruise to reelection in the Nov. 7 general election. Johnson didn’t face a challenge in the Democratic primary, and his general election campaign has attracted less attention than his bid to become the Council’s next speaker. But upstart candidate Marni Halasa hopes her bid to unseat Johnson will “shake New York City politics up.”
Halasa’s resumé features many entries — lawyer, journalist and figure skating coach among them — but she is perhaps best known for her work as a “theatrical activist,” donning fanciful costumes to take part in what she describes as “crazy political performance art” at protests and rallies for progressive causes. “Protesting is a great way to spread the message, but I got a little bit tired of being on the outside,” she said. “People take you more seriously when you’re running to approach things from the inside. It’s new way of relating to people.” Halasa recently left the Democratic Party (“Because of how they treated Bernie Sanders,” she explained, referencing instances of alleged bias shown to the former presidential candidate by the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 campaign) and is running for Council on the Eco Justice line, a party of her own creation with a platform that she says is modeled on that of the Green Party. “Given the obvious political dysfunction of the two-party system, voters want new ideas from new faces who can take things in a different direction by putting the community first,” she said. Halasa, who criticizes Johnson for accepting campaign contributions from donors with ties to the real estate industry and not doing enough to curb gentrification in the West Side district, said that she hopes to take up the Small Business Jobs Survival Act and promote publicly financed campaigns. She also hopes to create an infrastructure for other “activists and ordinary people on the outside” to run for elected office, rather than candidates drafted from political clubs. “It doesn’t have to be ‘the way it is,’” she said. “You can change it.”
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH, 7PM Film Soc. Lincoln Center | 70 Lincoln Cntr Plz. | 212-875-5600 | filmlinc.org Legendary artist David Hockney joins filmmaker Philip Haas for a conversation and a screening of their rarely seen 1998 collaboration A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China, or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth, which delves into a 17th-century Chinese scroll painting ($40).
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WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, JOE GIRARDI? BASEBALL The mystery of why the Yankees’ manager was unceremoniously canned after a strong season BY JON FRIEDMAN
Maybe it’s time for Paul Simon, fifty years later, to write a new verse: Where have you gone, Joe Girardi? Girardi managed the New York Yankees, the lifeblood of this city’s sports scene — oh, shut UP! It is — since 2008. Yes, sadly, I applied the past tense because Girardi is history in this town. I’m not happy about it, and I’m trying to make sense of it. Granted, it’s not like someone has left the Cabinet. But I’ve been rooting for the Yankees since the dark days of Horace Clarke and Jerry Kenney. I want them to win. The Yankees, specifically the excellent general manager Brian Cashman, unceremoniously canned Girardi last week. Why? Nobody, least of all Girardi, knows the truth. You hear loose talk. Girardi was too intense. Girardi was
Joe Girardi during Yankees at Orioles game on September 5. Photo: Keith Allilson, via flickr too lackadaisical during game two of the Cleveland series, when he inexplicably failed to challenge an obvious call with the umpires and ended up costing the Yankees. Girardi didn’t
communicate well enough with the young stars on the roster — even though they all had spectacular 2017 seasons. Girardi and Cashman clashed on various unidentified team matters.
Hmmm. Maybe now we’re getting somewhere. Perhaps Cashman, a good man as well as a first-class baseball GM, let his ego get in the way. Who really knows? It seems that Girardi was blindsided by the move, even though he had been saying guarded things during the playoffs about the prospects of his re-signing with the Yankees after his four-year, $16 million contract (a bargain!) expired at the end of the Yankees’ season. Girardi had not said: Hell yes, I want to return! I can’t wait to nurture Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Greg Bird and Luis Severino! Will Girardi’s successor do better? Will he take the team longer into serious October (and November) baseball, as WFAN’s Steve Somers likes to put it. Girardi’s 2017 team won 98 games, in total, and came one game shy of making it to the World Series. Not many fans would have suspected that was going to happen back in spring training. But relatively unproven young players blossomed, all at once, and the team came alive late in the summer. It defeated Minnesota, upset Cleveland snd pressed Houston. There is no guarantee that all of the
phenoms will improve on 2017. Chris Moore, WFAN’s best and most analytical broadcaster on Saturday praised Cashman for having “the courage of your convictions.” But he cautioned: “If everyone get into a sophomore slump, they’ll have a hard time. There are lot more questions around this team than people realize.” As fans, all we can do is root, root, root for the home team. We can’t really understand what’s going on in the front office or whether the general manager, who controls the baseball aspects of the team, is getting along well with the manager on the field. It doesn’t seem far-fetched that GM Brian Cashman and manager Joe Girardi weren’t the same page during the past season. Still, the Yankees overachieved and it seems that the best is yet to come. That means Girardi did a terrific job. Doesn’t it? Now, we’ll see how his successor fares. The Yankees seem to have a lot to look forward to. If they don’t win, it’s a shame. But it won’t be Joe Girardi’s problem any more.
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Corey Johnson allocates funds to plant trees in every viable pit in District 3 BY LIZ HARDAWAY
As the leaves begin to change, the urban jungle can look forward to a greener fall. Council Member Corey Johnson has allocated $300,000 to plant trees in every viable tree pit in District 3. Approximately 200 trees will be planted by the end of November in Chelsea’s 495 acres. “Street trees are pretty and nice to look at, but their benefits extend much further,” Johnson said. “They absorb pollutants and generate fresh air. They provide shade from the sun and food and shelter for birds and wildlife. They make our neighborhoods really feel like neighborhoods.” According to the NYC Parks & Recreation Department, 150 trees have already been
One of many trees found in District 3. Photo: Liz Hardaway
planted this year in District 3 as of Oct. 20. Only six were planted in 2016. Currently, the district has a total of 8,484 trees, according to the Parks’ 2015 street tree census, with a theoretical maximum planting capacity of 3,034 new trees.
“Young street trees face many challenges in NYC,” a representative from the NYC Parks & Recreation Department said, “including air pollution, drought and soil compaction.” In order to better care for these trees, residents need to water them once a week with 15 to 20 gallons during the summer, remove litter and weeds and prevent dog owners from leaving waste in the tree bed. Signage and tree guards can usually help keep trees healthier than if they are left without the extra help. The first round of funding came from participatory budgeting, with $100,000 going toward the NYC Parks and Recreation Department in the spring of 2016. This spring, Johnson’s camp decided to allocate $200,000 more towards the tree initiative from the FY18 budget. To get a tree pit filled, submit a tree service request at nycgovparks.org or e-mail district3@council.nyc.gov.
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RESTAURANT INSPECTION RATINGS OCT 14-20, 2017 The following listings were collected from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s website and include the most recent inspection and grade reports listed. We have included every restaurant listed during this time within the zip codes of our neighborhoods. Some reports list numbers with their explanations; these are the number of violation points a restaurant has received. To see more information on restaurant grades, visit www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/services/restaurant-inspection.shtml. La Crosta Restaurant
436 East 72 Street
La Mia Pizza
1580 1St Ave
Not Yet Graded (19) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Grade Pending (21) Hot food item not held at or above 140º F. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Insomnia Cookies
1579 2 Avenue
A
Dunkin’ Donuts
1248 Lexington Avenue
A
5 Napkin
1325 2Nd Ave
A
H & H Midtown Bagels East 1551 2 Avenue
A
Nino’s Restaurant
1354 1 Avenue
Grade Pending (3)
Sumela
1606 1St Ave
A
Two Doors Tavern
1576 3 Avenue
A
El Paso Taqueria
64 East 97 Street
Third Avenue Ale House
1644 3 Avenue
Grade Pending (27) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
Grade Pending (9) Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
Kennedy Fried Chicken
1774 Lexington Avenue
Grade Pending (23) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
A Taste Of Seafood
1980 3Rd Ave
Not Yet Graded (32) Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room. Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided.
Birch Coffee
171 E 88Th St
A
Bar Prima
331 E 81St St
A
Flex Mussels
174 East 82 Street
A
Subway
201 E 116Th St
A
Campagna Quattro Gatti
205 East 81 Street
A
Yoan Ming Garden
1407 Madison Ave
Ko-Sushi Japanese Restaurant
1619 York Avenue
A
Sandro’s
306 East 81 Street
A
Chipotle Mexican Grill
1497 3 Avenue
A
San Matteo Pizzeria E Cucina
1559 2Nd Ave
A
Cafe Bleriot
226 E 83Rd St
A
Not Yet Graded (58) Cold food item held above 41º F (smoked fish and reduced oxygen packaged foods above 38 ºF) except during necessary preparation. No facilities available to wash, rinse and sanitize utensils and/or equipment. Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service. Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred. Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
Starbucks Coffee
1142 Madison Ave
A
T & J Jamaican Flava
1257 Park Ave
A
Tasti D Lite
300 E 86Th St
A
Amer
1798 Lexington Ave
A
Chicky’s On 86
355 E 86Th St
Grade Pending (20) Food not cooked to required minimum temperature. Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage-associated (FRSA) flies present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas. Filth flies include house flies, little house flies, blow flies, bottle flies and flesh flies. Food/refuse/sewageassociated flies include fruit flies, drain flies and Phorid flies.
Mrs. An
173 E 99Th St
A
La Fonda Restaurant And Tapas Bar
169 East 106 Street
Grade Pending (21)
Bakery On 3Rd Cafe
1885 3Rd Ave
Grade Pending (21)
Malii
2028 2Nd Ave
Grade Pending (21)
Lupita Restaurant
2049 2Nd Ave
Grade Pending (21)
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TWITTER’S NEW POLICIES POSE ENFORCEMENT CHALLENGES Company enacted rules for users, advertisers BY BARBARA ORTUTAY
Twitter is enacting new policies around hate, abuse and advertisements, but having rules is only half the battle — the easy half. The bigger problem is enforcement, and there the company has had some high-profile bungles recently. That includes its much-criticized suspension of actress Rose McGowan while she was speaking out against Harvey Weinstein, and the company’s ban, later reversed, of an ad from a Republican Senate candidate that mentioned “the sale of baby body parts.” Such twists and turns suggest that Twitter doesn’t always communicate the intent of its rules to the people enforcing them. In McGowan’s case, her suspension resulted from a straightforward application of Twitter privacy rules to a tweet that broadcast a private phone number. But the moderators who enforced the rules didn’t seem to take into account McGowan’s central role in speaking out against allegations of abuse by Harvey Weinstein. A widespread outcry followed, and the company reinstated her. Twitter has users “coming from lots of different parts of the world with different kinds of context,” said Emma Llanso, director of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Free
Expression Project. “And it’s probably impossible to have just one set of rules that works all the time. There will definitely be mistakes.” The company said it will “be clearer about these policies and decisions in the future.”
tivists to ban Donald Trump from its service, Twitter is highly unlikely to do so, whether or not the president follows its rules against harassment.
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EARNINGS RESULTS Last week, Twitter reported a thirdquarter loss of $21 million, or 3 cents per share. Excluding one-time items, the company earned 10 cents per share in the latest quarter. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 6 cents per share. The company posted revenue of $589.6 million in the period, down 4 percent from a year earlier but in line with forecasts. Twitter had 330 million monthly users, up 1 percent from the second quarter.
CLEARER APPEALS To make things more clear, Twitter will give users suspected of abuse more information after they appeal a suspension verdict. Appeals themselves aren’t new, but now the company says it will provide “detailed descriptions” of rule violations as part of the process. The company said earlier this month that it will also email users when they
Twitter headquarters, on San Francisco’s 1355 Market Street. Photo: Caroline Culler/Wgreaves via Wikimedia Commons are suspected of account violations, and this month will post details about the different factors it weighs when enforcing its rules. Since mistakes will happen, Twitter needs “clear channels” so users can signal when something has gone awry, Llanso said. “If you don’t have a really robust appeals process, then you only have half of a process.” Of course, some things are unlikely to change. Despite calls by liberal ac-
Last week, Twitter also unveiled new rules governing advertisements, especially political paid messages that have come under scrutiny during investigations into alleged Russian interference with the U.S. presidential election. The rules require electionrelated ads by and about candidates to disclose who is paying for them and how they are targeted. Other advertisers will also have to provide more information, including how long ads have been running and information for users who are being targeted. But the stricter policy, which includes requiring the organization funding the ads to disclose its identity, along with how much money it is spending on each ad campaign, only applies to so-called “electioneering” ads This is a clearly defined category that includes only those ads that refer to a candidate or a party associated with a candidate for an elected office. Twitter says it’s still working on a policy for “issue-based ads,” those often divisive messages on hot-button social issues such as immigration and race relations. Russian agents reportedly used many such ads on social media in an apparent attempt to exacerbate social divisions ahead of the
election last year. Neither Twitter’s new policies nor the “Honest Ads” bill introduced earlier this month addresses election meddling efforts outside of advertisements. Twitter, Facebook, Google and others are also dealing with spam and fake accounts that spread fake news and propaganda. And rules didn’t appear to stop outside actors from attempting to influence the U.S. election. It’s already against the law for a foreign entity to purchase election ads in the U.S., either directly or indirectly.
AUTOMATED, COMPLICATED It’s one thing to enforce advertising rules in a print newspaper or a TV station, where real humans can vet each ad before it is printed or aired. It’s a whole other thing in an online ecosystem, where automated, selfserve advertising platforms allow millions of advertisers — basically anyone with a credit card and internet access — to place an ad. “It’s a complex environment with a very low barrier to entry,” said Chris Olson, CEO of the Media Trust, a provider of online advertising analytics and security. That makes even identifying the buyers of ads challenging, as the system currently relies largely on self-disclosure for identifications. While many advertisers will do just that, Olson said, bad actors will not.
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DE BLASIO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Next up is the general election, which always draws more voters than a party primary. But don’t expect long lines on November 7 either. De Blasio posts mediocre favorable and job-approval ratings. His likability is low. That hardly adds up to a stampede. His two foes aren’t exactly voter magnets either. In fact, Republican Nicole Malliotakis and independent Bo Dietl, running on the “Dump the Mayor” line, are so little known that a recent Quinnipiac poll found 75 percent of voters didn’t know enough about them to form an opinion. Still, the mayor’s opponents got a big boost last week. Not from anything they did. But from tawdry new pay-to-play allegations that surfaced against de Blasio, who had dodged a near-death experience back in March when prosecutors announced he’d face no criminal charges in twin federal and state probes of his fundraising practices. Those storm clouds never dissipated, and in testimony on October 26 in a corruption trial in U.S. District Court in Foley Square, ex-donor-cum-felon Jona Rechnitz testified he bought favors, government action and access from the mayor, whose personal cell phone he often called. Will it make a difference in the race? Unlikely. Will it further depress turnout? Almost certainly.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio rides the Westbound M23 Select Bus Service and delivers remarks about improving bus service on Friday October, 20. Photo: Edwin J. Torres/ Mayoral Photography Office As a lopsided favorite, de Blasio is still expected to romp to a reelection landslide. So his less enthusiastic backers will stay home, believing they’re not needed. Faced with crushing odds and a looming blowout, so, too, will many never-de Blasioers. The bottom line as an underwhelming, dispiriting race limps to the end: More voters will sit on their hands. Turnout could bottom out anew. A depressing new record below 24 percent could be set. “Certainly, it’s a good bet that the rate could go lower than it was four years ago,” said Democratic political consultant George Arzt, who served as Mayor Ed Koch’s third-term press secretary in the late 1980s. “People have lost confidence in politics.” He cited a concatenation of factors. A weak competitive field. A sitting mayor 40 points ahead in the polls. Name recognition for Malliotakis so
poor that “only people on Staten Island and Bay Ridge know her.” A GOP that’s largely uncompetitive. “No one knows there’s an election, there’s almost no advertising, it’s not bitterly fought, and you just don’t see posters or other evidence out there,” Arzt added. How things have changed. Consider the general election of 1953. Then-Manhattan Borough President Robert F. Wagner Jr., son of a great senator with the same name, had unseated incumbent Mayor Vincent Impellitteri in the Democratic primary and now faced Republican Harold Riegelman, the city postmaster, and Liberal Rudolph Halley, the City Council president. It was the closest the city ever came to European-style participatory suffrage. Roughly 2.2 million ballots were cast — a tally more than twice as great as in de Blasio’s 2013 race. An
astronomical 93 percent of the electorate turned out, a record that’s never been surpassed. Wagner, who won handily, went on to serve three terms. Why did turnout go into a tailspin? Social disorder and political turmoil in the 1960s kept many voters at home, but the civil rights movement, minority empowerment and a white backlash brought others to the polls, so for a time, the vote count was high and stable. But a steep fall-off began in the 1970s, fueled by a fiscal crisis and the city’s near-bankruptcy, and accelerated in the 1980s, a decade that saw recession, white flight, economic dislocation and a stock market crash. The 1993 election, in which lawand-order challenger Rudy Giuliani prevailed in a racially tinged rematch against incumbent David Dinkins, the city’s first African-American mayor, brought 57 percent of voters to the polls. It was the last time in a quartercentury that electoral turnout in a mayoral race topped 50 percent. In the past, the political machinery functioned well, says Democratic political strategist Hank Sheinkopf, who worked on Mark Green’s 2001 mayoral bid and cut his teeth on Herman Badillo’s 1969 race. “Patronage oiled the political machines to turn out voters in a city where ethnic loyalty and getting your garbage picked up and your streets policed were part of the same equation,” he said.
“Vote, you get the goodies. That’s the old days. Don’t vote, you still get the goodies. That is today’s mantra. There is no sanction, and thus, no fear,” Sheinkopf added. Indeed, for decades, the captains of Tammany Hall, whose power began to fade in the 1960s, would knock on doors and adeptly bring out the vote, Arzt said. Of course, there was a downside. “You also had repeat voters in the old days,” he added. It wasn’t only the fall of the clubhouse that shriveled the vote. The decline of church and family and even local haunts that once displayed campaign posters — the corner bodega, the candy store — also played a role. So did longer work hours and the rise of e-distractions. But there’s one more factor: A lack of political courage. Back in the winter, when it seemed then-U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was poised to indict de Blasio, a handful of Democratic Alisters were readying campaigns to unseat him. But Comptroller Scott Stringer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries — who would have enlivened the race, dispatching more citizens to the polls — all retreated when the mayor evaded legal peril. You can thank them for de Blasio’s inevitable coronation. Thank them, too, for the popular vote drop-off sure to accompany it.
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DEVELOPMENT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 taller, well, that is when folks take exception.” Under the plan, mandated zoning changes would restrict the height of new buildings on York, First, Second and Third Avenues to 210 feet, or roughly 21 stories. If a developer included a fixed amount of affordable housing on-site, a residence would be allowed to spring up to 260 feet, or about 26 stories, which would be 24 percent taller. The aim is to boost quality of life, maintain existing housing stock, keep shadows at bay, and preserve affordability and the low-rise lifestyle and infrastructure that has long defined the East Side, backers say. There are currently no height limits under the existing higher density zoning districts mapped out along the four avenues, meaning that, at least theoretically, structures of unlimited height are now permitted to rise on that broad swath of real estate. That’s a stark contrast with the 210-foot height cap now in place along parts of Park Avenue, as well as on East 72nd, 79th, 86th and 96th Streets, according to research by the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, which first advanced the proposal to mitigate the impacts of development in 2015. CB8 approved the measure at a full board meeting in September, and on October 25th, at a meeting of the board’s Zoning and Development Committee at the Church of the Holy Trinity at 316 East 88th Street, it discussed potential zoning text amendments and how best to steer them through the city’s regulatory process. Don’t expect swift action: CB8 or other community advocates would have to prepare a formal zoning application, which can be both costly and time-consuming. It would then face a lengthy public-review process and would require approvals from the Department of City Planning, the City Council, and ultimately, the mayor’s office before it could be enacted. And in the meantime, any new development projects — and multiple high-rise condominiums are already in the pipeline — that initiate their demolition-and-foundation work before a zoning modification takes place would be grandfathered in. That fast pace of out-of-scale construction has spurred com-
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A view down East 89th Street from First Avenue captures the changing face of the Upper East Side. Citizen 360, at left, and two other towers (center and right) soar above their low-rise neighbors. The explosion of new skyscrapers have led local leaders to seek height caps on future buildings. Photo: Douglas Feiden munity leaders and elected officials to take up the cudgels. “The affordable housing stock in five-story walk-ups, especially those that border the corners on the avenues, have been coming down, and luxury housing has been going up,” said James Clynes, the chairman of CB8. “The idea is to save affordable housing and also to preserve light and air in the neighborhood,” he added. “As more and more tall buildings go up, everybody’s light and air is being stolen from them.” For a quarter century, the 54-floor, 623-foot Trump Palace, which was built in 1991 at 200 East 69th Street, was deemed the tallest on the Upper East Side. For the time being, that record appears to be safe. But the simultaneous rise over the past two years of numerous luxury condo towers
some 20 blocks to the north, where they were never as common, has sparked the recent community backlash. The inventory includes the 31-floor, 521-foot, 48-unit 180 East 88th Street, which is expected to open in 2018, and the 30-story, 367-foot, 83-condo The Kent, at 200 East 95th Street, which topped out in April and is expected to bow by the end of the year. Also putting on the finishes touch for an end-of-year debut is the 34-floor, 351-foot Citizen 360, at 360 East 89th Street. “Whenever I speak to residents, their top concern, after the Marine Transfer Station and bikes, is overdevelopment,” Kallos said. “No matter where you go on the East Side, people will talk to you about overdevelopment. Folks are getting a little bit tired of all this construction.”
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CULTIVATING THE CITY’S VOICES Barbara Gustern on coaching Diamanda Galas, Debbie Harry, Taylor Mac and others BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Barbara Maier Gustern said it feels like she came out of the womb singing. As a youngster growing up in Boonville, Indiana, she would entertain her family by standing on a chair and belting out tunes. At 21, she moved to New York to get her master’s in psychology at Columbia University, but ultimately decided to pursue her vocal artistry. At 40, she sensed she had hit an impasse professionally and at the suggestion of a stranger at a party, went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, gave her first trial lesson and was hired. Over the years, she has taught the likes of Debbie Harry, Justin Bond and Taylor Mac. Now 82, she still coaches in her apartment every weekday, with her first lesson at 10 in the morning and her last at 7:30 at night. She also teaches on the occasional Saturday. This year, with the help of her students, she hosted two benefits in honor of her late husband, Joe Gustern, who passed away in April. It was through one of her first jobs in New York that led her to meet Gustern, known for his more than eight-year stint in “Phantom of the Opera.” The 82-year-old is currently putting her expertise to paper, writing a book about vocal technique. When asked about her future plans, she said, “I’m going to teach until one day I am at the piano and my head drops down and that’s that. And I want to dance on the table again at Joe’s Pub.”
In high school you were in a jazz group, replacing Florence Henderson. Yes, in Tell City, Indiana. It was a little bit bigger than Boonville, but not much. When I was in high school, I got hired to sing on Saturday nights with this jazz group in one of those fraternal organizations, I don’t remember if it was the American Legion of the Elks. The band leader would come to my house with his wife and pick me
up and bring me back, so that was OK with my parents. I got paid and sang standards mostly. I took the job after Florence Henderson had left to come to New York. As a matter of fact, I followed two people in jobs. That was the first one, and when I was here, Madeline Kahn was singing out on Long Island at a German place on Sunrise Highway. And I had known her because we were in an opera workshop together, and she was gonna quit because things were starting to happen for her. So she said, “Do you want to take this job?” And I said, “Sure.”
You met your husband through singing at a synagogue. Yes, I got a job singing in Adath Israel up in the Bronx, on the Grand Concourse. And I had never been in a synagogue in my life; I lied and got the job. A lot of the stuff wasn’t even written down, and somehow it was just as though I knew it. I mean I just took to it. My husband was substituting one morning for the bass and offered to take me home and I said, “No, the tenor always drives me home.” But then he called me that afternoon and asked me out. It turned out the next afternoon, we were singing at the same church out in Brooklyn. We went out after that and the rest is history.
How did you transition from singing to teaching? I hit a stumbling block when I was about 40 I guess. I wasn’t getting hired for leading ladies or ingénues. I was losing my mind and didn’t know what I was going to do. I had to do something; I was very unhappy. And coincidentally, one time at a party, I was talking to a woman I didn’t know, and this all came out and she said, “Why don’t you teach? American Musical and Dramatic Academy is always looking for good teachers.” Well, I never taught, but went over there and fed them my line and they said, “You have to do a trial lesson.” So I taught one, the first in my life, actually. They didn’t know that. And they hired me. And I found out I absolutely loved it and have been totally dedicated ever since.
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You’ve been working with Diamanda Galas since the early ‘80s. Explain how that partnership came about. I was out last night in that storm to go to Brooklyn to hear her, and she’s the most incredible talent you ever saw in your life. In the early ‘80s, a friend of mine out in California said, “Diamanda Galas is coming to New York and she’s a friend of mine and I told her to look you up.” She called me and she was going to do a performance at one of the big Lincoln Center halls. And she came to see me and sang. And I told her she needed to see a doctor because she was hoarse. And she went to the doctor and got what she needed and started working with me. She’s totally unique. She does extended vocal technique, sings more than one note at a time. And is the most powerful pianist you ever heard.
It was through Diamanda that you started teaching Debbie Harry. Debbie was a fan of hers and she asked if she could come to a lesson. So Diamanda said, “Do you mind if Debbie Harry comes?” And I said, “I don’t care who comes. Anybody.” So Debbie
showed up one day and she was like a little girl and asked, “Do you mind if I sit and listen?” And after the lesson was over, she said, “Do you think you might have time for me?” And I said, “Are you kidding me? Of course I have time for you.” She was a wonderful student. She studied very diligently. She started in about 1999 when the band [Blondie] was getting back together and was going to tour. And she introduced me to Justin Bond and he started working with me. And then for the longest time, I knew Taylor Mac and we always met each other at events and then he called me and said, “It’s time, Barbara, because I’m doing this 24-hour thing and have to prepare.” I worked with him for four years on that, getting him ready to sing for 24 hours.
You give the lessons in your apartment. Explain how you make that work. Well, my neighbors aren’t terribly happy listening to the vocalizing, so I have a keyboard in the bedroom, because you can’t really hear that much from there. So I put it on my bed and we do the vocalizing there and then I
have a baby grand piano in the living room. To sing the songs, we come out to the living room, because they’re happy to hear the songs; they just don’t want to hear the vocalizing.
Explain why Joe’s Pub is so important to you and your students. My daughter died in November of 2003, and that March, I did a benefit there in her memory. And I had been going there, because a lot of my students sang there, and I loved it. And Bill Bragin ran it at the time and I asked him if I could do this benefit and they were so wonderful to me. It’s a beautiful room and they’re very professional and welcoming. All of the downtown acts love to be there. And now it’s run by Shanta Thake, who coincidentally grew up about 30 miles from my hometown, so I have that connection with her.
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